ایّوب 22

۱ 1 پس الیفاز تیمانی در جواب گفت:

Then Eliphaz replied,

۲ 2 «آیا مرد به خدا فایده برساند؟ البته مرد دانا برای خویشتن مفید است.

“(Can anyone be useful to God?/Certainly no one can be useful to God.) [RHQ] Even people who are wise cannot be helpful to God.

۳ 3 آیا اگر توعادل باشی، برای قادر مطلق خوشی رخ می‌نماید؟ یا اگر طریق خود را راست سازی، او رافایده می‌شود؟

If you were righteous, (would that benefit Almighty [God]?/that certainly would not benefit Almighty [God].) [RHQ] If you had (lived a perfect life/never done anything that is wrong), would that help him?

۴ 4 آیا به‌سبب ترس تو، تو را توبیخ می‌نماید؟ یا با تو به محاکمه داخل خواهد شد؟

“Is it because you have an awesome respect for God that he punishes you? Is that the reason that he puts you on trial?

۵ 5 آیا شرارت تو عظیم نیست و عصیان تو بی‌انتهانی،

No, it certainly must be [RHQ] because you are extremely wicked. It must be that the evil things that you have done are so many that no one can count them!

۶ 6 چونکه از برادران خود بی‌سبب گرو گرفتی و لباس برهنگان را کندی،

You must have lent money to others and wrongly forced them to give you things to guarantee that they would pay that money back to you; you must have taken all their clothes and left them with nothing to wear.

۷ 7 به تشنگان آب ننوشانیدی، و از گرسنگان نان دریغ داشتی؟

You must not have given water to those who were thirsty, and you must have refused to give food to those who were hungry.

۸ 8 امامرد جبار، زمین از آن او می‌باشد و مرد عالیجاه، در آن ساکن می‌شود.

Because you were very powerful, you [must have] taken over all the people’s land, and then, being very respected, you have begun to live on that land.

۹ 9 بیوه‌زنان را تهی‌دست رد نمودی، و بازوهای یتیمان شکسته گردید.

[When] widows [came to you for help], you [must have] sent [them] away without giving them anything, and you must have oppressed orphans.

۱۰ 10 بنابراین دامها تو را احاطه می‌نماید و ترس، ناگهان تو را مضطرب می‌سازد.

Because of all that, now there are pits around you for you to fall into, and suddenly there are things that terrify you and cause you to tremble.

۱۱ 11 یا تاریکی که آن را نمی بینی و سیلابها تو را می‌پوشاند.

[It is as though] it has become very dark, with the result that you cannot see anything, and [it is as though] [MET] a flood covers you.

۱۲ 12 آیاخدا مثل آسمانها بلند نیست؟ و سر ستارگان رابنگر چگونه عالی هستند.

“[But consider this, Job]: God lives [RHQ] high up in the heavens. From there he [RHQ] looks down on the highest stars.

۱۳ 13 و تو می‌گویی خداچه می‌داند و آیا از تاریکی غلیظ داوری تواندنمود؟

So why do you say, ‘What does God know [about what we are doing]? [He is hidden from us by] dark clouds, so ([how] can he judge us?/he certainly cannot judge us.) [RHQ]’

۱۴ 14 ابرها ستر اوست پس نمی بیند، و بردایره افلاک می‌خرامد.

[Do you think that] while he walks on the dome that covers the sky, there are thick clouds around him, with the result that he cannot see [what we do]?

۱۵ 15 آیا طریق قدما را نشان کردی که مردمان شریر در آن سلوک نمودند،

Will you continue to conduct your life the old way that evil people have done [for many years]?

۱۶ 16 که قبل از زمان خود ربوده شدند، و اساس آنهامثل نهر ریخته شد

They suddenly died while they were still young; they disappeared [like everything disappears when there is] a flood [MET].

۱۷ 17 که به خدا گفتند: از ما دورشو و قادر مطلق برای ما چه تواند کرد؟

They kept saying to God, ‘Do not bother us,’ and they also said [defiantly], ‘Almighty [God] can do nothing [RHQ] to [harm] us!’

۱۸ 18 و حال آنگاه او خانه های ایشان را از چیزهای نیکو پرساخت. پس مشورت شریران از من دور شود.

But it was God who filled their houses with good things, so I cannot at all understand why wicked people think like they do.

۱۹ 19 «عادلان چون آن را بینند، شادی خواهندنمود و بی‌گناهان بر ایشان استهزا خواهند کرد.

“But when God punishes wicked people, and righteous people see that, they are glad, and they laugh, ridiculing the wicked people.

۲۰ 20 آیا مقاومت کنندگان ما منقطع نشدند؟ و آتش بقیه ایشان را نسوزانید؟

They say, ‘Now our enemies have been destroyed, and all [their possessions] that were left have been burned in a fire.’

۲۱ 21 پس حال با او انس بگیر و سالم باش. و به این منوال نیکویی به توخواهد رسید.

“So, [Job, ] be reconciled to God and make peace with him; if you do that, good things will happen to you.

۲۲ 22 تعلیم را از دهانش قبول نما، وکلمات او را در دل خود بنه.

Allow him to teach you, and keep thinking about what he has told you.

۲۳ 23 اگر به قادرمطلق بازگشت نمایی، بنا خواهی شد. و اگر شرارت رااز خیمه خود دور نمایی

If you humble yourself and return to God, if you stop doing all the evil things that you have been doing in your house,

۲۴ 24 و اگر گنج خود را درخاک و طلای اوفیر را در سنگهای نهرهابگذاری،

if you throw away your gold, even the fine gold from the dry stream beds in Ophir [land],

۲۵ 25 آنگاه قادر مطلق گنج تو و نقره خالص برای تو خواهد بود،

and if you allow Almighty [God] to be [as precious to you as] your gold and your silver [have been],

۲۶ 26 زیرا در آنوقت ازقادر مطلق تلذذ خواهی یافت، و روی خود را به طرف خدا برخواهی افراشت.

you will be happy because of your close relationship with God, and you will be able to approach him [IDM] [confidently].

۲۷ 27 نزد او دعاخواهی کرد و او تو را اجابت خواهد نمود، و نذرهای خود را ادا خواهی ساخت.

You will pray to him, and he will do what you request him to do; you will do the things that you promised him that you would do.

۲۸ 28 امری راجزم خواهی نمود و برایت برقرار خواهد شد، وروشنایی بر راههایت خواهد تابید.

Everything that you decide to do will be successful; [it] will [be as though] a light [is] shining on the road in front of you.

۲۹ 29 وقتی که ذلیل شوند، خواهی گفت: رفعت باشد، و فروتنان را نجات خواهد داد.

God humbles those who are proud, but he saves those who are downcast/discouraged.

۳۰ 30 کسی را که بی‌گناه نباشدخواهد رهانید، و به پاکی دستهای تو رهانیده خواهد شد.»

God rescues those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), so he will rescue you if you (start doing things that are right/are not guilty [IDM] of doing things that are wrong).”